McMahon v. People

This was an indictment against Michael McMahon, for larceny, and on a trial in the Criminal Court of Cook county the defendant was found guilty, and his term of imprisonment in the State prison fixed at eighteen months.

Several errors have been assigned on the record, but the main ground relied upon to reverse the judgment is, that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the judgment.

The charge against the defendant is, that on a certain day-in the month of August, 1886, he stole a suit of clothes from the house of Adam Jaeger, who resided at 701 South Halsted street, Chicago. At the time of…